The series of horrors in the devastated city continues, by the bombing, Mariupol. New news proves the degree of brutality on the part of the Kremlin, as more than 200 bodies have been discovered in the ruins of an apartment building in the Ukrainian port city, according to a Ukrainian official.
Petro Antrishenko, an adviser to Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boysenko, said workers found the bodies as they were digging in a basement under a collapsed building.
Specifically, as reported by the Guardian, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol wrote the following on Telegram. Due to the refusal of locals to collect the bodies, the Russian Emergencies Ministry abandoned the construction site."
Ukraine's Interior Ministry adviser, Anton Gerasenk, said Russian forces tried to force locals to remove the dead. When they refused, the makeshift "grave" was simply abandoned.
A cry of despair from a mother who lost her son in Mariupol: "Who will bury the dead?"
In a cemetery on the outskirts of Mariupol, the Ukrainian city captured last week by the Russian army after a three-month siege, a mother cries inconsolably over the loss of her only son.
Natalia mourns the loss of her only son, Vladimir Voloshin, who was killed on March 26 defending Mariupol against Russian invaders. He was only 28 years old.
Wearing a headscarf, the 57-year-old nurse says her son had recently graduated from the Naval Academy. He had dreams of a promising career, which were dashed overnight when Ukraine announced a draft to counter the Russian invasion.
"He was going to barge in February," Natalia monologues over her son's grave. "But then war broke out, for no reason at all," she adds."
On February 24, Moscow launched a military offensive aimed at "demilitarizing" and "denazifying" Ukraine - claims Kiev and the West reject as "pretexts" for a war aimed at Russia seizing territory from its neighbor.
Mariupol, with its strategic port on the Sea of Azov, was quickly targeted by Russian invaders. It was captured after a siege that, according to Kiev, caused tens of thousands of deaths.
Walking among freshly dug graves with makeshift crosses, Natalia mourns not only for her son but also for the dead who have no one to weep for them. "Who will bury them? Who will put a marble slab on them? They have no family to mourn them...", she says with tears in her eyes.
Source: protothema.gr
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